I just came across this... I guess it's called a "thread"? Was looking to see who all knows "The Little Rosewood Casket."

To "Chicken Charlie:"

I am curious where you learned/heard "The Barefoot Boy With Boots On?" My father used to sing it, tho at the moment I can't remember what he told me about it. He was born in 1908 in Virginia, and when he moved to California in the 1920's he decided to start collecting unusual songs, drawing many from ballads and folk songs his parents and grandparents used to sing well into the night.

In California he formed a group known as "The Possum Hunters" and he was "West Virginia Slim." They performed on live radio out of San Bernardino (KFXM I think?), and during summers at Camp Curry in Yosemite National Park. His group was good friends with the Leonard Sly (later know as Roy Rogers), and the original Sons of the Pioneers.

My father never became famous other than to those who knew him, as his career in the National Park Service took him away from Hollywood. I am familiar with about 150 songs he sang regularly, and discovered he also had a collection of around 500 songs not even my mother had ever heard him sing... In the early 1990's he finally began compiling a book of "his" songs, but he died unexpectedly in 1995, sill very active physically, and still singing/yodeling, one month shy of his 88th birthday. My mother says someday she will finish the book and get it published...

Anyway, I am curious to know what information you have on The Barefoot Boy With Boots On. Thanks.